Proxy performance: JIT-compilation?

[Mark Miller]

Alex, I'll just point out that you are already engaged in the best kind of
activity to get implementors to optimize these paths: Building a membrane
library that can get widespread use, which encapsulate the complexity of
proxies behind a more usable API, for which these proxy operations are the
bottleneck. If these costs were sufficient to deter use of your library
this would not be a good strategy. But *many* uses of membranes will be for
cases where membrane crossings are rare compared to direct object-to-object
interaction on either side of the membrane. For most of these, faster
proxies will not matter. But for some of these, proxy performance will not
be enough to deter use, but faster proxies would still produce a noticeably
more pleasant experience.

This is a long term strategy. For the short term, if you can manage it,
make proxy performance significant in some widely used benchmark suite.

None of this is meant to detract from the box of chocolate strategy. Try
everything!



On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Alex Vincent <ajvincent at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, how many boxes of chocolates do I need to send to the two big vendors
> in Mountain View?  :-)
>
> It's been fifteen years since I seriously tried to profile C++ code, and I
> didn't really know what I was doing back then:  unfamiliar tools, and less
> competence in C++ than I would've liked.  What little knowledge of
> profiling I had back then has long since faded.
>
> Even if I could generate a pretty picture of how long we spent in each
> code path, I wouldn't know how to interpret it.
>
> I recently submitted a patch for improving error reporting in SpiderMonkey
> [1], so I can occasionally dip my toes in the JSAPI code...
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1383630
>
> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen at wirfs-brock.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I don’t think the barriers to such optimization are technical.  It’s more
>> a matter of convincing that engine implementors that doing the work
>> (probably significant)  to optimizing Proxies in this manner is a sound
>> investment and hight priority
>>
>
> --
> "The first step in confirming there is a bug in someone else's work is
> confirming there are no bugs in your own."
> -- Alexander J. Vincent, June 30, 2001
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  Cheers,
  --MarkM
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